{"id":5183,"date":"2024-11-07T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodoakshomecare.co.uk\/franchise\/found-this\/ft28-budget\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:30:58","slug":"ft28-budget","status":"publish","type":"newsletters","link":"https:\/\/www.goodoakshomecare.co.uk\/franchise\/found-this\/budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Costs will rise a little. As with nearly every sector, employing people will be more expensive due to the National Insurance changes and National Living Wage increases in April. It’s expected 75% of the Employers’ NI increase will be born by relatively lower wage increases however.<\/li>\n
  2. GoodOaks’ focus on the premium, private market with our unique brand mitigates some of these risks, by focusing on quality over quantity and not being so sensitive to tight margins.<\/li>\n
  3. Local Government, who purchase a lot of social care, are having a 3.2% increase in their budget, plus another \u00a3600m specifically for social care.<\/li>\n
  4. Unpaid Carers will now be able to work up to 16 hours at the NLW while still receiving Carers’ Allowance. This potentially unlocks a new group of candidates, 70% of whom are female,\u00a0who will be experienced, empathetic, and motivated.<\/li>\n
  5. No fuel duty increase – this was due to increase prices by 7p a litre, which would have had a direct impact on a large number of our care pros. Scrapping the increase reduces the cost pressure somewhat.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In all, the Budget will raise \u00a340bn, much going on the NHS. It doesn’t change the fundamentals of the care sector<\/a>\u00a0however, and now at least we have some certainty and can plan accordingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    I hope this helps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Best wishes, Ben.<\/p>\n

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